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			<h1>A day of &quot;repairs&quot;</h1>
			<p>Day 00522: <time>Wednesday, 2016 August 10</time></p>
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	Much of the day was spent repairing my <a href="/en/domains/newdawn.local.xhtml"><code>//newdawn.local.</code></a> again.
	Once more, the power jack is acting up, though this time, I can&apos;t quite tell why.
	At first, I could pull the jack into a working position by tugging at the electrical tape that&apos;s sticking out of the laptop&apos;s shell.
	That fix didn&apos;t last long though, as the electrical tape kept stretching until it wasn&apos;t any good.
	I took the machine back apart to see what I could do about it this time.
	My mother came by and asked what I was doing, so I explained, and they offered solutions that I don&apos;t think would work, such as constructing new thin anchor tabs out of hard rubber.
	These would replace the broken plastic ones that are built into the case, but assuming that I could even get them attached to the case properly somehow, they&apos;d be too pliable, especially once made so thin, to perform any sort of anchoring function.
	Unsure at all of what to do, I did take a rubber stamp to cut up, offered by my mother.
	I kind of lost track of what I was doing, so I cut it incorrectly, but I think that I made it work.
	The stamp fragment now sits between the <abbr title="compact disc">CD</abbr> drive and the power jack, pushing the two apart.
	They <abbr title="compact disc">CD</abbr> drive is securely anchored (though only by a single screw), so it basically just holds the power jack in place while using the <abbr title="compact disc">CD</abbr> drive to brace itself.
	I had to dismantle the laptop a couple more times to fix some things as I failed to connect things properly (such as the power button and the touchpad), but eventually I had <code>//newdawn.local.</code> put reassembled correctly.
	Much to my dismay though, the power jack still seems to work only sometimes.
	I&apos;m not convinced that my &quot;repairs&quot; today can even be called repairs; I see no measurable improvement.
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